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Karin Hall

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Predicted effects of management on vascular plant species in arable field margins

Author

  • Therese Irminger Street
  • Honor C Prentice
  • Karin Hall
  • Ola Olsson

Summary, in English

Many of Sweden’s red listed species are found in the agricultural landscape. Small biotopes (e.g. field margins and field islets) are important for the maintenance of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, and agri-environmental support is paid to farmers who keep them open. However, a proper evaluation of the biodiversity-gains from this type of management is lacking. We examined the predicted response of vascular plant species in field margins in Scania, S. Sweden, to the removal of woody vegetation and found that more species are expected to show a positive than a negative response to this type of management. Comparison of present-day and historical (1940s) aerial photographs shows that field size and the amount of small biotopes have decreased while the cover of woody vegetation on many of the remaining small biotopes has increased. Changes are greater in the arable plains and in the mixed district than in the forest district.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • Biodiversity
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

233-243

Publication/Series

Aspects of Applied Biology

Volume

100

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Association of Applied Biologists

Topic

  • Ecology
  • Physical Geography

Keywords

  • agri-environment schemes
  • small biotopes
  • arable field margins
  • vascular plants
  • Landscape change
  • management

Status

Published

Research group

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0265-1491